Example sentences of "are do to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these things are done to us deliberately while others are the unintentional actions of others or unavoidable events . |
| 2 | The trees are done to crackling . |
| 3 | Suppose you are on drugs and you know what they are doing to your body but you ca n't break the habit . |
| 4 | If only those people realised the harm they are doing to their health by not allowing themselves to show what they really feel — sometimes not even admitting those feelings to themselves — perhaps they would unbend a little . |
| 5 | Without having that understanding of what emotions are and what they are doing to us we can not analyse the way in which emotions disturb our balance and what that should teach us about ourselves and our relationship with the world . |
| 6 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 7 | I have great sympathy with Linford ; what they are doing to him is totally disgraceful . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't understand what you are doing to me . |
| 9 | Ironically , these kids are doing to the Lo Life name what the real Lo Lifers themselves do to Ralph Lauren 's — using its status for their own ends . |
| 10 | It is true that the Irish have not genuinely embraced the fitness revolution and the real impact of the fitness factor is witnessed in the unpleasant sight of what fit teams are doing to Ireland . |
| 11 | If men like women so much where are the men who are speaking about what other men are doing to women ? |
| 12 | To tell what the Tories are doing to the N H S , I mean I do n't think it 's a case of us making them aware of what 's happening . |
| 13 | Because he 's very much aware of what the Tories are doing to the Health Service same as the rest of the cabinet . |
| 14 | Let those involved in violence — who plan it , carry it out or are in any way responsible for it — realise the damage that they are doing to people living in the district . |
| 15 | If the taxpayer understood what the Government are planning with this privatisation and what they are doing to the coal industry , there would be no doubt what would happen at the next general election . |
| 16 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 17 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 19 | None of Britain 's 140 nuclear power stations will get a licence to continue operations until they provide far more detailed information on what damage they are doing to the environment and what steps they are taking to prevent it , according to an announcement from HM Inspectorate of Pollution . |
| 20 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 21 | As long as you are doing to number two something appropriate as effective by what you have decided to do . |
| 22 | ‘ Many of the young girls who are starving themselves have no idea what they are doing to their bodies . |
| 23 | Kids are generally speaking um encouraged not to refuse what adults are doing to them . |